Expert: Triage approach can build stronger health data security

Although new IT security solutions appear regularly with promises of a fresh approaches and technologies for protection, Stephen Cobb, senior security researcher with security software maker ESET North America, suggested that healthcare IT leaders look to a medical model for security before buying more security products. These IT managers should regard their organizations as patients and address the most glaring security needs first, much like establishing triage. "Every organization has limited resources, and triage is a way of looking at a patient, finding out the most urgent problem and determining the appropriate cure," Cobb said.